Down and Up – A Musical Journey With Spirit in One Cosmic Moment

by Robert Wilkinson

When the site was down, I wondered if today’s post about loss was or wasn’t published before the servers crashed. While we were apart, I found a song appropriate to the moment.

Funny, since this song is from one of my all-time favorite bands, and I stumbled upon it almost by accident. The man who wrote and sang this is mos def one of my top 5 guitar players of all time. Randy (Wolfe) California was FIFTEEN when Jimi made him second lead in his NY band, and would have been a member of the Experience except for his age.

Randy was a wonderful, decent person who was born just a few weeks before me, and drowned too young saving his 12-year old son from a riptide. That loss hit me hard. He literally gave up his life to save his son.

So today, for your enjoyment, one of the truly great rock and roll songs as delivered by a relatively unknown brilliant guitar wizard and a true mench. From 1984, a video of the band “Spirit” with a bunch of amazing guitar slinging guests delivering their signature hit written by Randy California, “I Got A Line On You”